From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 04:37:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E384916A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 04:37:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770C343D2F for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 04:37:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:37:45 -0600 Message-ID: <41DB6EEC.4010704@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:37:00 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael References: <41DB1C74.2000809@optusnet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <41DB1C74.2000809@optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jan 2005 04:37:45.0723 (UTC) FILETIME=[4D5504B0:01C4F2E0] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: canon lbp-1210 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:37:04 -0000 Hello, Michael --- (format corrected) Please wrap your lines at about 70 characters to help your post be more "friendly" to those of us who use text-only MUA's on console machines.... Michael wrote: > I'm trying to get my canon lbp-1210 to work under freebsd, it > doesn't have any emulation and seems to be a windows only > printer. Possibly correct, but IANAE and can't say for sure. > Is there anyway to use windows drivers under freebsd for the printer? > (EG: like the ndiswrapper is used to make windows network drivers > work under freebsd) > I haven't heard of anything, but keep reading, if you will... > When I plug in the printer to my freebsd4.10 machine into > the USB slot it comes up as a 'ugen' which says to me that > the computer doesn't know what the device is at all. I've tried > installing CUPs and looking for a suitable driver through CUPs > but couldn't find one. I'm now trying to find alternatives. I would suggest trying aspfilter then, also in ports. > The printer has USB and parallel and prints fine under windows. > What about if I put a windows box as my printer server and is it > possible to send printing through samba so that windows will > catch it and convert it to the crappy printer of mine? > (EG: RAW --> Canon LBP-1210 windows drivers). > > ~Michael I do this at home via apsfilter (which automagically did most of the Samba stuff for me) to a HP 6110 multi-function on an XP box via Ethernet, so it might work for you, but YMMV.... HTH, Kevin Kinsey